· Private foundation
The Ginger E and Robert D Wallace Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $41k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF UTAH | $11,000 |
| CACHE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY | $10,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE | $10,000 |
| BEAR LAKE VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| OGDEN RESCUE MISSION | $9,000 |
| UTAH FOOD BANK | $7,000 |
| UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY | $6,000 |
| MALIHEH FREE CLINIC | $5,000 |
| THE SAMARITAN FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| UTAH FESTIVAL OPERA | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| UTAH YOUTH ORCHESTRAS & ENSEMBLES | $5,000 |
| FOREVER BALBOA PARK | $2,000 |
| MINGEI INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM | $2,000 |
| ATHENEUM MUSIC & ARTS LIBRARY | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $71k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 35% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
31 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- MFMaliheh Free Clinic8× · 2018–2025 · $40k · revenue +79%
- TSTHE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION5× · 2017–2021 · $25k · revenue +38%
- CCCACHE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC3× · 2023–2025 · $23k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- NHNATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMone grant, 2021 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $5k
- NHNEIGHBRHOOD HOUSEone grant, 2020 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Excite, entertain and enrich diverse audiences.
The New Childrens Museum (the Museum) in San Diego is an arts-based childrens museum whose mission is to stimulate imagination, creativity, and critical thinking in children and families through inventive, engaging experiences with…
Balboa Park Conservancy (the Conservancy) was organized on November 3, 1923. The Conservancy is the City of San Diegos (the City) partner and advocated for the greater good of Balboa Park (the Park). The Conservancy collaborated with and…
La Jolla Symphony Chorus Association was organized in 1957 under the nonprofit public benefit corporation laws for public and charitable purposes. The mission of the association is to inspire the San Diego community with the joy of music…
The museum of contemporary art san diego invites all audiences to experience our world, our region, and ourselves through the prism of contemporary art.
To provide the youth of san diego with the highest quality choral music education and performance experience, fostering an awareness of culteral diversity and inspiring a lifelong love of music.
To reach out to members of the community by seeking their involvement in all forms of dance either as a student or member of the audience.
To improve the quality of life of communities throughout the city of San Diego through equitable investments in parks, greenspace, and recreational opportunities.Vison - Every San Diegan has access to quality recreational facilities as…
San Diego Theatres, Inc. (SDTI) is a not-for-profit public benefit corporation established to manage and operate publicly owned performing arts theatres. SDTI was established in 2003 by the San Diego Convention Center Corporation (SDCCC),…
San Diego Junior Theatre (Junior Theatre) was incorporated in 1948 as a nonprofit corporation and is the oldest youth theatre in the nation, offering affordable camps, classes, and outreach programs for children ages 3-18; as well as six…
Founded in 1996, The South Coast Symphony, the unstuffy symphony, is a resident orchestra for South Orange County. The seventy member Symphony services South Orange County's fifteen diverse communities with a professional, accessible and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Diego Opera Association and the most unlike its peers is Cache Community Food Pantry Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 53 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Neighborhood House Association ↗
- Who funds Maliheh Free Clinic ↗
- Who funds San Diego Opera Association ↗
- Who funds THE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds RESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE INC ↗
- Who funds CACHE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE SAMARITAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOREVER BALBOA PARK ↗
- Who funds PORTNEUF HEALTH TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS ↗
- Who funds REUBEN H FLEET SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO YOUTH SYMPHONY & CONSERVATORY ↗
- Who funds EAST COUNTY YOUTH SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds Maritime Museum Association of San Diego ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The San Diego Foundation · Samuel I & John Henry Fox Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Mandell Weiss Charitable Trust · David C Copley Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Matthew B Ellis Foundation · Rice Family Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Ginger E and Robert D Wallace Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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